Aiken, David Wyatt

David Aiken was a Confederate army officer who served as a congressman from South Carolina during the years after the war. Aiken had graduated from South Carolina College, a school once defined by its former president, Thomas Cooper, an early and controversial secessionist and a former Dickinson College professor.

Life Span
to
Full name
David Wyatt Aiken
Place of Birth
Burial Place
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
South
Origins
Slave State
No. of Spouses
2
Family

Mattie Gaillard (first wife)

Education
University of South Carolina
Occupation
Politician
Farmer or Planter
Educator
Journalist
Relation to Slavery
Slaveholder
Political Parties
Democratic
Other Affiliations
Other
Other Affiliation
Grange
Government
US House of Representatives
State legislature
Military
Confederate Army

David Wyatt Aiken (Congressional Biographical Directory)

Reference
AIKEN, David Wyatt,  (father of Wyatt Aiken and cousin of William Aiken), a Representative from South Carolina; born in Winnsboro, Fairfield County, S.C., March 17, 1828; received his early education under private tutors; attended Mount Zion Institute, Winnsboro, and was graduated from South Carolina University, at Columbia, in 1849; taught school two years; engaged in agricultural pursuits in 1852; during the Civil War served in the Confederate Army as a private; appointed adjutant and later elected colonel of the Seventh Regiment of Volunteers; relieved from service by reason of wounds received on September 17, 1862, at Antietam; member of the State house of representatives 1864-1866; secretary and treasurer, Agricultural and Mechanical Society of South Carolina, 1869; member, executive committee, National Grange, 1873-1885, and served as chairman, 1875; delegate to the Democratic National Convention at St. Louis in 1876; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fifth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1887); chairman, Committee on Education (Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses); was not a candidate for renomination in 1886, being an invalid throughout his last term; died in Cokesbury, S.C., April 6, 1887; interment in Magnolia Cemetery, Greenwood, S.C.
“Aiken, David Wyatt,” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000061.
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